These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with
straight answers. I also LOVE the quote at the end!!

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the
participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving
backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live and produce on their own for
several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted
every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What
fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy with a real pear
inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is
genuine glass; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get
inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw'
and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name
at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen,
canned, processed, cooked or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning
with the letter 'S.'

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Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the
participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends:
Boxing

2. North
American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls (The rim
is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the
millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)
3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for
several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry.
5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the
bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small,
and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for
the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped
off at the stems.)
6. Three English words beginning with 'dw': Dwarf, dwell and
dwindle.
7. The fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar are:
Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question
mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis,
braces, and ellipses.
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 's':
Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,
stockings, stilts.

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